Disney tackles the true story of how a small school from Texas overcame racial division to win the NCAA College Basketball National Championship in “Glory Road.” Don Haskins is the coach at Texas Western University, now known as the University of Texas at El Paso. He has an integrated team that he takes to the […]
Captain Jack Sparrow is back in the fifth film in the “Pirates of the Caribbean” series. This time, he’s helping Will Turner’s son, Henry, and Captain Barbosa’s daughter, Carina, find a trident that will allow Will Turner to return to land. But, they are chased by the villainous Captain Salazar, an undead sailor looking to […]
“I am Iron Man.” With one phrase the era of great superhero films was back and Marvel had succeeded with someone previously viewed as a second rate character. It’s hard to believe 12 years and 20-plus movies after its initial release, but there were once doubts about the success of “Iron Man” and the Marvel […]
The Walt Disney Company owns several studios that produce films both theatrically and straight to video, DVD or digital download depending on when the film was released. While most people think of the Walt Disney Animation Studios or Pixar, there’s also the Disneytoon Studios. It’s most known for releasing the sequels to the Walt Disney […]
This is the second in my series pitting two Disney films against each other to see which one is “better.” For my second battle, I will be comparing two films from the Pixar studios. Remember, I will be using 5 criteria to determine the winner: protagonist, antagonist, supporting characters, music and memorable moments. Again, this […]
Pixar is back with its second movie in cooperation with Disney, “A Bug’s Life,” taking on the classic fable of “The Ant and the Grasshopper.” Dave Foley stars as Flik, an ant that can’t do anything right for his colony and ends up getting the colony in trouble with a group of grasshoppers led by […]
The X-Men are back and battling a new foe in “X-Men: Apocalypse.” 10 years after the events at the end of “Days of Future Past,” an evil being known as The First One is searching out Magneto and other villainous mutants in an effort to take over the world. It’s up to Professor Xavier and […]
On this 65th anniversary of the opening of Disneyland in California, Disney+ shares an almost hour long documentary that originally aired the week before the park opened, “A Pre-Opening Report from Disneyland.” The documentary gives us an inside look at the park and the effort that was being done to make the park operational. It […]
Disney Legend Bill Farmer takes us to a Hawaii to introduce us to some special dogs that protect the wildlife on the islands in the latest episode of “It’s a Dog’s Life.” We meet a team of border collies who protect the Nene, a native bird to the Hawaiian islands, from entering the flight paths […]
Percy Jackson and the rest of the Olympians are back for a sequel in “Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters.” And, this is not a good movie. I watched it and all I can remember about it is Alexandra Daddario’s character does way less than in the original, there’s a cyclops and it’s a sequel to […]
Disney’s Golden Age of animation ran from 1937 to 1942 and features the first five movies released by the Walt Disney Animation Studios. This was a time when people were not expecting animated films to be successful, but Walt Disney had a vision and he brought it to fruition. Unfortunately, the Golden Age ended because […]
The prince of the forest is born and we follow a year in his life as he grows from fawn to buck in “Bambi.” We see him learn to walk and play, fall in love; or become “twitterpated” as they say, and rise up to fight the enemy of the forest; in this case, Man […]
The X-Men from the original trilogy send Wolverine back through time to help the X-Men of the First Class in “X-Men: Days of Future Past.” Wolverine must help Professor X, Beast and Magneto stop Mystique from killing an important political figure looking to hunt down mutants and possible starting an all out war between humans […]
Disney takes an in-depth look at the galaxy’s favorite smuggler in “Solo: A Star Wars Story.” We see where Han Solo grew up, how he was connected to the Empire and how he deserted to join a group of smugglers before setting off on his own. Since Disney took over the “Star Wars” franchise, it’s […]
Disney legend Bill Farmer is back to introduce us to some more spectacular dogs in the latest episode of “It’s a Dog’s Life.” In this episode, we meet a rescue dog who helps save skiers following an avalanche and a team of beagles working at Los Angeles International Airport who sniff out harmful insects that […]